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Archive for December, 2016

December 2016 Meeting – Celebration and planning socials for next year!

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Dec

2016

Summary: We planned Gig Buddies socials for next year. We ate biscuits! Date: 20th December 2016 Ideas for 2017 socials: Actions: Kate will use the ideas for socials to plan Gig Buddies in 2017. Kate and Holly will keep checking back to them when they write the newsletters over the year. Kate and Victoria will […]

Three heroes called Andrew and why we love volunteering

02

Dec

2016

We are always truly blown away by the volunteering contributions people make to the Stay Up Late and Gig Buddies movements! And it just so happens that three of them recently have been called Andrew. So here you go, three heroes called Andrew… Paying tribute to 3 volunteering heroes of ours called Andrew… Andrew number […]

Social work consultation – making a meal of it!

01

Dec

2016

Why we’re making a meal of social work consultation This is an idea that started in a pub over a pint of beer with Jem Price, a senior social work lecturer from the University of Brighton. Me and Jem were pondering how we could create a much more meaningful way of enabling people with a lived […]